Songs My Mother Taught Me

Synopsis

Autobiographical show. Lorna Luft, daughter of the legendary Judy Garland, shares her story about growing up as the daughter of one of the world's most famous entertainers, while celebrating her mother's musical legacy. The show includes such Garland standards as Come Rain or Shine, For Me and My Gal, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, You Made Me Love You and The Trolley Song. Luft will be supported by a ten-piece orchestra, using Garland's original arrangements, led by Lift's husband Colin Freeman as musical director, as well as a video backdrop of rare Garland footage and family photo album memorabilia. Songs My Mother Taught Me is written by Mitzie and Ken Welch.

Our Review:

7 July 2004

It can’t be easy being the sister of Liza Minnelli, let alone the daughter of Judy Garland. Especially when you’ve got singing and acting ambitions of your own. After all, as the lady in question, Lorna Luft, admits, “A legend’s a tough act to follow.”

There’s no denying that - since sharing the stage and TV screen with her mother as a child and notwithstanding a grown-up role in the film Grease 2– Luft’s career has remained fairly low-key, at least as far as British audiences are concerned. By her own account, Luft spent years trying to outrun family associations, dying her hair, carousing at Studio 54 and following six chimps and other end-of-pier acts in Atlantic City (the American equivalent of Blackpool).

In 1998, in a move some might call exploitative but what Luft refers to as “making amends with the ghost”, she published the memoir Me and My Shadows: Living with the Legacy of Judy Garland. The book became a best-seller and the basis for an Emmy aw...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (213.78.217.239) - 24 August 2004:

I managed to go to Lornas last show (for now) at The Savoy, what a wonderful night it was. Talent pouring out from this great entertainer. Deserved every standing ovation given...

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